- From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 10:16:22 +0100
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 16:09 3/6/97 EDT, lee@sq.com wrote: >I certainly wouldn't want to make every DSSSL style sheet build in code >for specifying collation rules. Ordering is a separate part of the DSSSL spec, designed to be used separately if needs be. It is also tied to glyph mapping - you can't sort on glyphs! >Sorting is different from presentation: St. Edmund sorts after Safeways and >before Sanctuary .... There is no need to >standardise that, and we don't have the implementation experience for >XML to make that appropriate anyway. You can't standarize it as it is application dependent. What you need is a way of moving the rules required from application processor to application processor. Thats what the DSSSL spec seeks to do. I was not aware that the TEI spec covered sorting. >A "little language" like that for character entities is something that I >proposed at SGML OPEN last year, but the mailing list has been dead, not >least as I wasn't able to get to any SGML OPEN meetings since then. The question is "what consitutes little?" I think you will find the DSSSL lexicographic ordering specification technique is as minimalist as you can reasonably get. ---- Martin Bryan, The SGML Centre, Churchdown, Glos. GL3 2PU, UK Phone/Fax: +44 1452 714029 WWW home page: http://www.sgml.u-net.com/
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